‘City of Saints and Madmen’ is one of the oddest books I’ve read. It’s a series of short stories set in the city of Ambergris, a city of ‘functional anarchy’. The short stories aren’t stories about Amerbergris, they’re written by the people of Ambergris, complete with footnotes, bibliographies that go on for several pages, and a glossary. One of stand out stories, ‘The Exchange’ is both a story written by a famous Ambergrisian author, as well as a critique of the story by another citizen of Ambergris.
The book is a marvelous hodge-podge of fonts and styles, and I’d recommend picking it up just to flip through it and look at it.
Gooks and Bames 